Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 March 2017

Spotswood College is developing a new $2 million learning support centre for students with special educational needs, while the $1.6 million project at Te Pi’ipi’inga Kakano Mai Rangiatea will deliver four extra classrooms to help meet roll growth …

The International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study will assess children’s emerging literacy and numeracy, and their social and emotional skills, as our education correspondent John Gerritsen reports.

Academics say they are being pressured to change assessments, ignore cheating and pass incompetent students so their institutions can pocket the students’ fees.A survey of 1006 members of the tertiary education union has found 63…

A student who was caught cheating three times was still allowed to pass the course, his lecturer says.The former lecturer, who asked to remain anonymous, said he resigned from the Manukau Institute of Technology (MIT) in protest…

The tertiary education union which represents academics & university lecturers says its members are increasingly feeling pressure to pass incompetent students. A survey of just over 1000 of its members found 63 per cent felt they came under more heat in the past decade to pass a higher percentage of students. Kathryn Ryan speaks to Union president Dr Sandra Grey who puts the problem down to government targets and the spectre of losing funding.

Mr Goldsmith said in that same period, the number of Maori completing bachelors degrees increased by 61 percent, while Pasifika graduates increased by 74 percent. He said this is a great success and everyone in the tertiary education sector can be …

In the past, that might have been an assertion made by left-wingers, justifiably bemoaning the dearth of women or ethnic minorities in tertiary education. Nowadays, though, it’s a fashionable right-wing joke – and it’s not that funny. But as the old …

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